Exams encourage stduents to learn
Historically, in Korea, exams are important in every parts of the society. This happens because Korea abolished novels almost 700 years ago and has selected officers by giving an exam. Thus, Koreans feel tests as natural. However, recently some argue that serious stress and severe results from the test put students at risk like comiting suicide. As the number of students commiting suicide increase, people realize its negative aspects and try to find alternatives.
To find alternatives, some visited many foreign countries who have different test system or does not have exams. However, they are often stuck by thought if abolishing an exam is a good idea for people and the nation, because we have already developed our economy so fast and this is a good reuslt of exams. Furthermore, they cannot find the best test system which never have negative problem. Of courese, some argue that asking students to write papers and hand them in. However, this way also has problem like students are under serious stress, because it also asks students to study. If people want to perfectly solve this problem the only way is not giving any tests to students. This results from the fact that there should be some students who cannot bear stress. Under this condition, I believe that exams can be second best answer even though it has a number of problem. First, exams make students at least look over previous materials before the exams. As people already know that students rarely study when they do not have exams. So, they must have exams to motivate and not to procrastinate. While studying previous secssions, they spend some time to think about some difficult materials to understand. It helps them develop theri brain and makes them more smart. We can alleveiate stress of students by giving more chances to take exams to make up the spoiled one.
Everyone already knew that exams put students at risk and make them to be strained. As you have heard many researches proving not too much stress will make people live more energetic, students would be better off. This is because students may learn how to deal with stress by themselves without others and relieve it. This could be more important for them to live in this complex and individualized socieity. Therefore, I believe that exams are important for students in that students will have chances to learn more thoroughly and learn how to treat stress.